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Missing Hardrive, Windows won't boot?
I have a asus p5n-e sli windows 7 with two hard drives each with 500gb. I have windows installed on HD 1 and it isn't showing up in bios setup or select boot device so windows won't boot. I had a power outage in my area and afterwards seems like the computer can't find hd that windows is installed on?? Any help with this would be very much appreciated..
I don't think its MBR because in the setup bios there should be two WD Hard drives showing up but only one is. I assume the missing one is where windows 7 is installed cause when I try to boot from the other drive just a bleeping cursor shows then reboots. Even if the MBR is missing shouldn't the HD still show up as a boot option and show is the bios HD menu? Sometimes when I boot up and go to boot selection menu the missing one shows up but without any other info, the other hd shows the type ie WD with alot of numbers etc..... while the other one is just blank?
I just made sure both sata were connected right and swapped connections and still won't boot. The only thing that changed was at first two drives were listed and the top one had no other info and after swap the bottom one was the one with no info from the boot menu after pressing f8. It didn't work so I decided to just switch them back the way they were connected before just in case.on the hard drives there were two cables connected to each drive, one that says sata and was wider and a smaller one right next to it, I just swapped both cables from both hd's.
Ok just checked and noticed that the smaller cables from each drive are connected to the mobo and right next to each other, should I disconnect this and swap as well? Is this the psu?